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Query Dad Jokes with WPGraphQL

If you’ve ever wanted to use GraphQL to query dad jokes, look no further.

If you’re running a WordPress site, you can install the WPGraphQL plugin along with the WPGraphQL Dad Jokes plugin, and you can query for a random Dad Joke using GraphQL!

The plugin uses icanhazdadjoke.com to retrieve a random dad joke.

This also serves as a great example on how to extend WPGraphQL to customize the Schema for your needs.

The beauty of GraphQL is the data that resolves can come from anywhere. Even though it’s a WordPress plugin, the data that’s queried and resolved, doesn’t have to live in WordPress!

Enjoy!

July 13, 2017
WordCamp Orange County Recap

I had the privilege of leading a Workshop this weekend at WordCamp Orange County on building Single Page Apps with React, Apollo, WordPress and WPGraphQL.

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June 12, 2017
Denver WordPress Developer Meetup Workshop Follow Up
In preparation for the Workshop I’ll be doing at WordCamp Orange County next weekend, I hosted the Workshop for the Denver WordPress Developer Meetup to get some practice.

I learned a lot about how I need to have my files organized for the workshop and learned what steps I can skip to get through the “important” steps within the allotted time.

If you attended and have feedback, please share. I’m far from a seasoned professional when it comes to public speaking and hosting workshops, so any feedback is welcome.

Anyway, below are some links from the Workshop:
- The recording is here: https://youtu.be/5xASl0JZBAw
- Here’s the links to the slides: http://slides.com/jasonbahl-1/super-powered-single-page-apps#/
- Here’s the Github Repo to the single Page App we built (the commit history has detailed comments for each change that was made): https://github.com/wp-graphql/wordflix-single-page-app/
- And the github repo for the WPGraphQL plugin is here (go ahead and Star the repo on Github wink, wink): https://github.com/wp-graphql/wp-graphql
I plan on updating the Tutorial series to have a video walkthrough for each step to compliment the written tutorial, so keep an eye out for that in the next few weeks.

There’s also a wp-graphql slack organization if you’re interested in discussing the plugin more: https://slackin-wpgraphql.herokuapp.com/ (if that link doesn’t work message me and I’ll invite you to the Slack org).
June 1, 2017